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Professor Robin Mansell | 31 October 2012
New communication technologies raise questions about the role of journalism in our societies, opening up the possibility for the profession to be, in many respects, reinvented. This knowledge exchange project focuses on the future of journalism in ke ...
Dr Bethany Klein | Sociology | 01 January 2009
Primetime television programming does not function as mere entertainment for viewers, but a site in which contemporary social issues are considered and negotiated. This project is designed to investigate the premise that entertainment programming off ...
Professor Edward Fieldhouse | Political Science | 01 March 2009
At election time political parties attempt to mobilise and persuade voters through their campaign efforts. As well as traditional door-to-door visits, parties use a variety of less personal techniques to contact voters, including sending out leaflets ...
Dr Andre Spicer | Management & Business Studies | 01 March 2005
This project asks how the global independent media network (indymedia) organises non-government public action in four different national contexts. Indymedia is a particularly interesting example of public action because it uses open-sourcing technolo ...
Dr David Vinson | Psychology | 01 January 2013
Successful communication involves integrating multiple types of information. In sign languages, linguistic information is provided by the hands, but also by the body, face and mouth. In spoken languages, speech sounds are combined with visible mouth ...
Dr Margaret Zellers | 01 March 2012
It is well known that people convey meaning in conversation not only with their choice of words, but also with the use of prosody: variations in pitch, loudness, and other characteristics of the sounds which can create different shades of meaning. Cu ...
Professor Susan Banducci | Political Science | 31 December 2012
The traditional media play a privileged role in informing citizens through their provision of news and current affairs programming. Contemporary developments in media and political structures, such as the expansion of commercial broadcasting and weak ...
Professor Rob Procter | Statistics, Methods and Computing | 01 January 2007
This project is part of a portfolio of work being conducted of the national centre for e-social science (ncess) to investigate the application of new grid technologies in the social sciences. The project will build an e-infrastructure on the uk natio ...
Dr Sharath Srinivasan | 31 October 2012
Politics and interactive media in africa (pima) examines whether and how africans, particularly the poorest and least politically enfranchised, use new communication technologies to voice their opinion and to engage in a public debate on interactive ...
Dr Saskia Sanderson | Interdisciplinary Studies | 01 June 2005
An understanding of both genetics and social issues is necessary for academics and professionals engaging in debates about the concerns and future uses of the emerging genetic technologies. this is particularly as the focus of genetics researc ...
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